Typological Database of Perfect Tense Structures in European Languages

Typologinen tietokanta Euroopan kielten perfektirakenteista

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Typological database about the perfect tense and similar structures in European languages. The data was collected in the mid-1990s by means of questionnaires to which voluntary informants replied. The total number of respondents was 95, and they represented speakers of 35-36 languages. The questionnaire consisted of 88 of sentences in English that the informants translated into their mother tongue. The corpus contains thus 8360 sentences that are stored in an Access database.